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Here you will find the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on May 20.

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holidays & events
  • 2006:  Armed Forces Day
  • Beating of the Bounds (Old England)
  • Dainty-Four Remembrance Day (Fairy)
  • Eliza Doolittle Day
  • Flower Day
  • Maritime Day
  • Mjollnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor's Hammer)
  • National Be A Millionaire Day
  • National Employee Health and Fitness Day
  • National Quiche Lorraine Day
  • 2006:  The Preakness
  • Weights and Measures Day
  • Birthday of the Tathagata Buddha (Guatama) - the spiritual body of the Buddha is the Tathagata, which manifested itself in the physical body of an Indian Prince named Sidhartha Guatama (born in 563 B.C.) when he attained enlightenment

Christian holidays


anniversaries

  • closing of Pennsylvania Avenue (1995)
  • Amelia Earhart’s Atlantic Crossing (1932)
  • Lindbergh Flight (1927)
  • first Norman Rockwell Cover on the Saturday Evening Post (1916)
  • Homestead Act (1862)
  • Council of Nicaea I (325)

directories


May holidays & events by location

 
Africa

Africa

  • Cameroon Constitution Day - National holiday in Cameroon
  • MPR Day - in Zaire
 
Asia & the Middle East

Asia

  • Wisakha Bucha Day - in Thailand

Middle East

 
Australia & Oceania

Australia and Oceania

 
Europe

Europe

  • Festival of the Chirping Crickets - in Florence, Itlay
  • Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken) - in the UK
 
North & Central America

North America

  •  Blessing of the Fleet begins - in Bayou La Batre, Alabama
  •  Lafayette Day - in Massachusetts
  •  World's Largest Pancake Breakfast served by IHOP - in Springfield, MA
  •  Mecklenburg Day - in North Carolina
  •  NASCAR Day, 2005

Caribbean


Central America

 
South America

South America

 
calendar & zodiac

Gregorian calendar

  • Day 140, with 225 days remaining in the year
  • 2001 A. D.: Sunday
  • 2002 A. D.:  Monday
  • 2003 A. D.:  Tuesday
  • 2004 A. D.:  Thursday
  • 2005 A. D.:  Friday
  • 2006 A. D.:  Saturday
  • 2007 A. D.:  Sunday
  • 2008 A. D.:  Tuesday
  • 2009 A. D.:  Wednesday
  • 2010 A. D.:  Thursday
  • 2011 A. D.:  Friday

other calendars


season

  • Northern hemisphere:  Spring
  • Southern hemisphere:  Autumn

zodiac


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last edited Saturday, March 29, 2008